# Fixing damage to LCD? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 25, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-damage-to-lcd/490735 "2009-03-25T14:44:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-damage-to-lcd/490735/1 "2009-03-25T14:44:16Z")
So I was sort of carrying an LCD monitor and I was kinda not careful enough and I guess the buttons on my coat pressed in too hard. . . Mistakes were made! Anyway, I have a couple of spots on the monitor now that are dark-- not black but ‘translucent grey’ (I can see what’s on the screen there) with some cyan/yellow/pink around the edges. It seems to get a bit lighter after a while–after being on for an hour or the dark gray has turned into lighter grey and more color has shown up on the sides. No cracks or scratches. Descriptions of ‘stuck pixels’ don’t seem to be exactly on the mark, and a bit of ‘color flashing’ software did nothing after a half hour. Anyway, so is this something that will fix itself over some amount of time? Is there anything to help it along? Turn it off? Leave it on? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-damage-to-lcd/490735/2 "2009-03-25T14:46:36Z")
I am not an expert but my unprofessional opinion is the moitor is hosed. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-damage-to-lcd/490735/3 "2009-03-25T15:11:14Z")
I call this “bruising.” If it’s minor, it may eventually disappear, but, most likely the bruises will always be visible. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-damage-to-lcd/490735/4 "2009-03-25T15:19:18Z")
There are stuck pixel fixers out on teh internets that you can download and run, or you can do what I did in PowerPoint: make a 5-slide presentation: one slide all red, one all blue, one all green, one all white and one all black. Set it up to run with automatic advances every 1 second and to repeat. Run it. I do this periodically on one of our monitors here at work that is prone to whatever the LCD equivalent of burn-in is, and it ameliorates it. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-damage-to-lcd/490735/5 "2009-03-25T15:46:46Z")
Huh, well I’m trying to use one of those color oscillators and ‘massaging’ the screen with a pencil eraser and it seems to be helping-- a lot of grey is turning cyan and yellow. Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-damage-to-lcd/490735/6 "2009-03-25T15:48:51Z")
Be patient and go slow. I let my pixel fixer run for an hour when I can.